Champion – 99 Neighbors

Look me in my eye
Tell me what you see
Look me in my eye
Tell me what you see
When you see somebody like me
Look me in my eye
I’m still alive
And I’m still here
Tell me what you see
What you see

Head above water
But I’m in too deep
Toss and turn in my sheets
I need TLC when I creep
I got skeletons in my closet
Takin’ medicine out my cabinets
Got a lotta dead homies
And I know they waitin’ for me
Since ’97 I’ve been striving for greatness
‘Til the days end, ’til I can’t breath and the lights off
Six feet deep in the pavement
Tell me what the fuck I look like
I’m an outsider on the inside
Want me to talk like this but I walk like that
But I’d rather watch paint dry
Stuck between a rock and a fuckin’ hard spot
I’ma keep tryin’ ’til my fuckin’ heart pop
Lord take me if I never make my momma proud
Until then, I’ma hold it down
So I keep my head above water
And I’ma tread lightly
For a minute I was sinkin’
Still thinkin’ I’ma die at the perfect timing
Hittin’ 89 on the 105; I might crash
99 on my dash
Safe to say I don’t care
Day to day I’m all in
Wake and bake with my friends
Almost a high school dropout
But I’m up now, can’t stop, what the fuck now, uh
Still independent if you wanna come and get it
‘Cause I’m headed to the top now
Way too sick when I hop on the beat
Anything goes when I tap into me
I was down for the count, ru-runnin’ around
Head to the ground with the blood on the sink, oh
I’m a champion, I’m a champion
I’m a champion in my dreams

Turn out my lights for hours
Just break the lightbulbs
And wait through nightfall again
Couldn’t demonstrate what’s been going through my head
It’s a pretty dark place, bitch I coulda been dead
Did lose friends, did lose fam
Did waste time and I prolly will again
Least I can get this shit off of my chest
It’s a lot up on the line when you work with your friends
Lotta time in life wasn’t really well spent
Pressure like a knife to the side of my head
If the tip break skin, let that bitch sink in
Guarantee I’m still the best, that’s alive or dead
From behind all the kids in my class
To my name on the map, it’s insane but it’s fact
Made a name for myself, made a lane for myself
Ain’t a damn thing held me back
I’m a champion, I’m a champion
I’m a champion in my streets
Came from a broke home, goodwill clothes
Now I’m grown with my dead homie kicks on my feet
What a life this be, R.I.P
Tell every other nigga that he ain’t like me
Got a heavy heart from the loss in my art
It come out when I open up a little bit of me, aye

Look me in my eye
You see somebody like me